[Yum] another question about installing version specific rpms using yum

[Edward Bailey]

Thanks for your time - that is too bad since we are tied to RHEL4 for the
foreseeable future. The exclude option did work but that could turn into a
issue given the number of rpms our custom code requires.

Thanks again

Ed

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:09 -0500, Edward Bailey wrote:
> > I am sure this is a simple problem for most but we are perplexed by
> > this issue and need some help
> >
> > We are using yum 2.6 on rhel4 and we are having a problem installing a
> > specific version of an rpm. This repo is in our QA vertical and we
> > have 3 version of code being tested at any given time. In this
> > situation we have 2 rpms of a higher version in the repo than what is
> > installed on the server. We have been trying to installed the next
> > higher version rpm but not the highest version rpm and the install is
> > not working. Yum is reporting that their is nothing to install, but
> > yum search is seeing the rpm because we see the correct rpm version as
> > output.
> >
> > We can remove the rpm and then install the correct rpm but that is a
> > step we are hoping to avoid. Is this expected behavior? Would one of
> > the plugins help? Do I need to provide any other information? This is
> > my first post to the mailing list and I am not sure what is needed to
> > debug the issue.
> >
>
> yum 2.6 is likely to not cope well with not installing the latest
> version.
>
> you can exclude the higher version with --exclude - but beyond that
> you'll need a newer yum (and a lot of other newer bits to go on rhel4)
>
> -sv
>
>
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